A 52 year-old woman with her arm, face muscle weakness and slight ptosis for months in management with mestinon. She askes for knowing more about her disease and how to solve her illness.
MSCT detects multinodular blossom in the thymus and mediastinal lymph nodes. While brain MRI represents no brain tumor.
Ultrasound found out no cervical lymph node for biopsy.
Thoracic endosurgery removed the thymomal tumor and lymph nodes in mediastinum.
Microscopic result is lipoma of thymus, a case of the thymolipomatous myasthenia gravis.
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